Barn storming success

My work space

Sally Robinson runs AmpleBosom.com, an internet mail order bra business, from Old Byland Farm where she has lived with her farmer husband John for more than 20 years.

AmpleBosom has attracted so much interest that now Harbour Films is planning to make a film about the business, with Victoria Wood possibly playing the part of Sally.

"The office is in an old barn," says Sally. "There are up to six of us sharing the space now and we're too big for it, but at the same time I would never want to have a clinical-type call centre. My desk is 1940s, it cost £5 from a sale years ago and it has pedestal legs with drawers and two pull-out leaves. I think it may have been used in a drawing office before because it's got a glass top with a fitting for a light which has never worked. My chair is red with a padded seat and a reclining back. My computer is grey - that's about all I can tell you about it.

"My window looks out over the yard: I can see my husband and son emptying some of the bra boxes which we are hoping to recycle into bedding for the cattle. At lunchtime whoever gets to the farmhouse first - either John or I - gets lunch ready.

"I wander about the office quite a lot. I also spend time in the warehouse. I don't get caught up with processing orders. It's my job to make everyone else's life easier. I do help people on the phone a lot; customers ring up desperate. We have 150 different bra sizes - I'm always trying to help people find a comfortable bra. My phone is on the wall and I have to stand up at my desk to reach it. It isn't on the loop with the bra phones.

"We do have satellite broadband now, which is wonderful. I think that in rural areas you should miss out mobile technology altogether and go straight to satellite. Mobile phones don't really work here. My son straps his phone to the window - very high up - to get a signal, then when it rings he takes it outside. The bra phones do tend to ring all day, but not off the hook. The house phone also rings in the office, and quite often that can be for B&B, which I also do."

When it comes to talking about the success of the business, Sally admits that she has had the odd sleepless night thinking about it; she never dreamed that there would be a film made about her. "It's a bit like having children: you think you know what it'll be like but it's always different."

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